This was our big find of 1990. We had been told that the only previous exploration was in 1910, when a little boy had been tied to a rope and dangled 10m down, reporting that it appeared to go a lot further! People had thrown stones down the hole and it was estimated to be about 30m deep. We lowered about 38m of ladder down the shaft and sent Andy Maloney down. A short while later he emerged, out of breath, reporting that he had reached the end of the ladder and that the floor of the shaft was nowhere in sight!

Hearing this, France became really excited and wrote a note which, we were assured, would get us all the ropes and ladders in Slovenija (or at least as much as we needed)!

Once armed with this abundance of tackle, Steve Greatorex set off to rig it for SRT. The rock was very crumbly, so re-belays were used at every available point. About 25m down was a 45 deg. sloping ledge, piled high with stones that people had thrown down over the years! The slope opened out into an immense chamber about 20m across, the floor of which was nowhere to be seen! At -60m, a rock bridge cut a corner off the shaft dividing it into two unequal shafts. A further 20m down the larger of the shafts, the floor was reached, sloping down to a short pitch. The cave choked at -100m.